{"id":30289,"date":"2023-02-19T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1788206"},"modified":"2023-02-19T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:06:36","slug":"stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things\u2019 Matthew Modine hopes Dr Brenner isn\u2019t dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> &#8220;I hope that there&#8217;s some way to resuscitate Dr. Brenner and put him in season 5&#8230;&#8221; <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 19 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Matthew Modine hopes that he can return to <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-5-release-date\/&quot;\">Stranger Things<\/a> for its fifth and final season \u2013 despite the fact his character Dr. Martin Brenner appeared to be killed off during the events of the previous run.<\/p>\n<p>In the penultimate episode of season 4, Brenner was shot by a sniper while attempting to take Eleven captive, but Modine has now suggested he may not have succumbed to his wounds.<\/p> <p>\u201cIs he dead?\u201d he asked during an exclusive interview with <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> on the red carpet at tonight\u2019s Film BAFTAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I knew, I love Millie Bobby Brown, I love [creators] the Duffer brothers, and [producer] Shawn Levy,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd it was such a wonderful show to go to work on, it was fun every day that I worked on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that there\u2019s some way to resuscitate Dr. Brenner and put him in season 5 because it would be wonderful to be part of the last season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he thought he might be able to come back, Modine replied: \u201cWell we didn\u2019t really see him dead \u2013 he was just lying there in the dirt. He\u2019s survived the Demogorgon, he survived Vecna in episode 1 of season 4\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have to wait and see if Brenner does indeed come back for the final season, but we imagine Eleven won\u2019t be too keen to see the character return after she refused to forgive him in their final scenes together.<\/p>\n<p>The last run is set <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-5-episode-length-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">to contain shorter episodes<\/a> than the epic fourth outing but looks set to be another tear-jerker when it arrives on the streamer, with the Duffer brothers revealing last year that <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/stranger-things-season-5-tear-jerker-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">they made Netflix bosses cry with their planned finale<\/a>.<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"6319539474112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/> <p><strong>Stranger Things seasons 1-4 are available on\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/80057281&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Netflix<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0now.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/strong><\/a><strong>. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;I hope that there&#8217;s some way to resuscitate Dr. Brenner and put him in season 5&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30290,"template":"","categories":[6,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead.jpg",1920,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/02\/stranger-things-matthew-modine-hopes-dr-brenner-isnt-dead.jpg",1920,1280,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\"I hope that there's some way to resuscitate Dr. Brenner and put him in season 5...\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}